Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

oarplatform.com

OAR: The Oxford Artistic & Practice Based Research Platform

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

70 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oarplatform.com page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oarplatform.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

oarplatform.com

202 ms

www.oarplatform.com

460 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

77 ms

bootstrap.min.css

145 ms

jquery.mmenu.all.css

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Oarplatform.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to and 5% (1 request) were made to Cdn-images.mailchimp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (460 ms) belongs to the original domain Oarplatform.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.1 kB (57%)

Content Size

46.1 kB

After Optimization

20.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Oarplatform.com main page is 46.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 27.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 27.4 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 6.9 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.9 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 20.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 12.4 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Obviously, OAR Platform needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 209 B

  • Original 845 B
  • After minification 845 B
  • After compression 636 B

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Oarplatform.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 209 B or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (69%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of OAR Platform. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

oarplatform.com accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

oarplatform.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

oarplatform.com SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Oarplatform.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Oarplatform.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of OAR Platform. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: